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busy

Box Elder down

This large box elder tree split down the middle in heavy winds yesterday, with the larger part falling to the east across our fence, and the smaller portion falling west onto the neighbors' fence. Not visible here, but the neighbors turned their horses out into the field either without noticing that their fence was down, or without thinking it mattered. All three were just beyond the shrubbery in the backdrop and could have crossed to our side easily.

If you click on the photo and follow the photostream to the right on the page that appears, you can follow four hours of progress as we got the tree off the fence .

When I went into Marengo for groceries this morning, I saw lots of heavy tree branches down all over town and on the roads leading in. Obviously there was some sort of very localized wind phenomenon yesterday, and it was quite intense.

Summer is here and so are the ^&*(%$ flies. I put Tess out while we were working on the tree, since her usual field is the next one over so we wouldn't interfere with each other. She was happy at first, but when I took the camera out to get the final photo of the liberated fence, she was in a frenzy to get to me. I went to the gate and saw that she was being tortured by little black flies. Not time for her to go in yet, but I ran back to the barn and got fly repellent and a fly mask for her. She seemed much relieved once that was taken care of. No more trips out without those necessities now.